and i sometimes feel for that reason more connected to this social enviroment (let’s call it industrial / hard underground) then to many aspects of gay life. not necessarily gay, but connected to the gay hyper-masculinity in the knowledge that this is a certain style and that masculinity has nothing to do with authenticity (which is constructed as well, of course), and which is fun to play with because it opens up certain possibilities of creating relationships – be it sexual or not. I always found fascinating how la muerte, as well as other artists like foetus, front 242, revolting cocks dealt with masculinity, creating a form of sometimes rather kinky hyper-masculinity (hello, the cramps!). as it is an aesthetic decision this makes the music more interesting – it seems to be a consciuous artistic decision and therefore opens new levels of interpretation. so this is not really hardrock, it is rather rooted in industrial and uses the same radical aesthetic expression – also the extreme images of sexuality (see the booklet of their live cd raw: drawings between hr giger and manga of penetrating metal objects) and violence. the links on their website give other reference points: elvis, the cramps, the young gods, jim thirwell (and somehow they do remind me at times of wiseblood), front 242, ministry and others. the goths took off like a flock of ravens…Īllright – this all points into the direction of hard rock, of motörhead and the like. then la muerte entered the stage and played their filthy rock, dressed in full rocker gear, complete with bandanas and mirrored sunglasses. the funny thing was that they played after a goth band inspired by and also the trees and the cure – think fuzzy, dreamlike guitars and sad lyrics. i saw them live once – and they managed to empty the place in under five minutes. La muerte were from 1984 to 1994 a belgium rock band – hard, dirty, loud, blasphemous (ecoute cette priere) and definitly a lot of fun. and this blog needs something HARD and LOUD and DIRTY now. i’m not really sure why, but somehow la muerte just seem to fit here. i’ll get back to that in one of the next posts. Buoyed by the global pandemic, DeathList 2020 smashed the previous record with 20 deaths, although only two of them directly related to Covid-19.This has something to do with foucault’s ideas concerning homosexuality as a way to create relationships rather then being (only?) a sexual orientation. A quick recap of DeathList’s rules: Candidates must be famous enough such that their death is confidently expected to be reported by the UK media Candidates cannot be famous solely for the fact they are likely to die imminently and only 25 candidates can reappear from the previous year’s list. This is a list of 50 celebrities chosen by the DeathList committee, before the start of the year, for their likelihood to die in 2021.

2020 holds the current record of 20 deaths

La muerte death race 2000